Access to Work Programme: Finance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the increase in the number of assessors to clear the Access to Work backlog will be funded from the current allocated fund for Access to Work.
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms
The cost of additional staff recruited to process the backlog of Access to Work applications will be funded from within the Department’s existing budget allocation. It will not be funded from Access to Work allocated budgets.
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